Tronchet (Ille-et-Vilaine)

Tronchet is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

Tronchet is located at 25 km of Saint-Malo.

History

The vault of the abbey of Tronchet depended on the parish of Plerguer, belonged to the deanery of concerning Fraud évêché of Fraud and was under the term of Notre-Dame.

April 16th, 1826: set up in parish
June 5th, 1953: set up in commune

Tronchet was constituted historically around the abbey of Tronchet. As of the end of XIe century, a place of prayer existed in the forest, inhabited by Gautier, miraculeusement cured leprosy by a monk of passage. A pious community was formed then at this place. A church was founded in 1140 and one convent about 1150. Tronchet was then given to the abbey of Marmoutier, close to Tours by the seneshal of Fraud-of-Brittany, Alain, like a dependence of the priory of Combourg. This house was set up in abbey in 1170 by Saint-Beno4it cheese monks. Raoul was the first abbot. In 1278, Edouard III, king d' Angleterre, granted to the abbey of Tronchet the permission to hold a fair. The Forks patibulaires, badges of High justice, rose then in the village of Tronchet which had been constituted around the abbey. In 1478, François de Beauchêne, abbot of Tronchet, receipt right to carry the ring, the miter and other ornaments pontifical. Then the périclita abbey and was reformed with XVIIe by the Congrégation of Saint-Maur and was rebuilt on a close hill. The inhabitants of Tronchet had indeed mobilized themselves with the bishop of Fraud-of-Brittany to restore the monastery.

the abbey of Tronchet

The Abbaye Notre-Dame of Tronchet was rebuilt at the XVIIe century by the congregation of Saint-Maur whose guard was not other than the Cardinal of Richelieu. This abbey was indeed built between 1642 and 1679. It was the heiress of a former abbey, Benedictine abbey which existed of XIIe in XVIe sècle and which was with two hundred meters of the new building. Flourishing at the XVIIe century, it was declining at the XVIIIe century. A stop of April 3rd, 1767 of the Council of the King carries removal of the abbey of Tronchet, house almost deserted fault of monk . However, the stop remained without execution and there were abbots until the French revolution. Chateaubriant, in its Mémoires of in addition to-falls , evokes the abbey of Tronchet in tinted poetic terms of nostalgia. The abbey was plundered and ransacked during the French revolution and it was partly demolished at the XIXe century since in 1854 one sold part of his stones for the construction of the quays of Saint-Servan and for the construction of the presbytery of Roz-Landrieux. Parishioners fought to save the building, the such Caperan abbot, who since 1810, tried to give again life with the ruins, and obtained into 1826 that Tronchet is set up in parish, the such inhabitants of the village of Tronchet who cotisèrent themselves to buy buildings this same year 1826. In 1856, the architect Albert Beziers-Lafosse will save the building by reducing the chorus and by restructuring the building. This work of scale will save the abbey of total destruction. 147 years later, a new rehabilitation, beyond the normal repair of the ravage of time due to a failing maintenance during this century and half, gave again with this abbey church part of the aspect which it had with its birth: arch out of wood, cornices, stained glasses, coated, apparent fresco.

The village of Tronchet, attached to the Revolution with the commune of Plerguer, but with special advisers, was set up in commune on June 5th, 1953 has close one century of legal combat. Thus, 800 years after the construction of a place of prayer in a withdrawn place, the abbey rebuilt in 1679 gave its name to a new commune, the commune of Tronchet.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Notre-Dame Abbey of Tronchet.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Tronchet on the site of the national geographical Institute
Tronchet on the site of INSEE
Tronchet on the site of Quid
Localization of Tronchet on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Tronchet on preliminary Mapquest
Inventory of the inheritance

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